Crime

Memphis police said a person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer. Memphis Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rudolph told the Associated Press that a person is in custody but no charges have been filed. She says the investigation is ongoing and did not give further details. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said during a news conference that police were alerted at 9:18 p.m. CDT Saturday that an officer had been shot multiple times. Armstrong said the officer was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died. In a statement Sunday morning, Memphis police identified the slain officer as Sean Bolton,...

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One man has been arrested after an altercation left two others stabbed in Newport News early Saturday morning.
Police got a call about a stabbing on the 800 block of Forrest Drive at 1:13 a.m., according to Sgt. Randy Rajkumar with the Newport News...

Atlanta Hawks forward Mike Scott, a former University of Virginia basketball player from Chesapeake, was arrested in Georgia for having drugs in his possession, according to AccessWDUN.
Scott was the passenger in a car with 20-year old Antonn Imhotep...

A Hayes man charged earlier this year with manslaughter and drunk driving in a deadly head-on crash in Gloucester County was found guilty this week.
John David Acamo, 30, pleaded guilty to DUI-second offense, DUI related manslaughter and a misdemeanor...

YORK — Two suspects have been indicted by a York County-Poquoson grand jury in connection with the January slaying of Dylan Peters.Benjamin H. Hahn, York County-Poquoson commonwealth's attorney, said a grand jury recently indicted Tevin Desean Lambert...

The federal government won't go for the death penalty against the men charged in a street gang conspiracy that prosecutors say left four men dead between 2007 and 2010.
Of the six defendants named in a federal indictment in March, four of them — Eric...

GLOUCESTER – A Hampton man has been charged in a string of thefts from multiple vehicles and sheds throughout Gloucester County over the last several weeks.Christopher Austin Smith, 23, has been charged with eight counts of grand larceny, five counts of...

UPDATE: A 22-year-old man has been arrested by Norfolk Police in the shooting death of a woman early Wednesday morning.
Steven T. Williams, of the 1000 block of Norchester Avenue in Norfolk, was taken into custody at a hotel in the 700 block of...

Advocates for victims of sexual assault and rape have ample reason to be impressed with the progress being made in how these deplorable crimes are handled in Virginia.
The commonwealth adopted a proactive stance long before the 2014 Rolling Stone article...

Former Isle of Wight School Board Chairman Kent Hildebrand is out of jail after being arrested and charged last week with stealing more than $200,000 from a 79-year-old woman over the course of several years.
Hildebrand was arrested on July 20 on 17...

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The location is about a half mile from...

Gloucester
In the 2300 block of River Club Way
On July 20, a report was received of a larceny from a vehicle parked at a residence in the 2300 block of River Club Way, which occurred between July 12 and July 20. A pair of Ray Ban sunglasses and black...

A Newport News woman was accused of abducting a 2-year-old boy after she and his father got into an argument on the way to a child’s birthday party, police said.
Chesia L. Killins, 35, of the 600 block of 30th Street, was charged with abduction, grand...

An 18-year-old Newport News man was arrested late last week and accused of assaulting and injuring multiple people, including two customers at a Dollar Tree store earlier this month, an official said.
Officers were called to a report of an assault at the...

Newport News should be pleased that calm and restraint have prevailed in the wake of the July 4 shooting death of 23-year-old Kawanza Jamal Beaty by a still unnamed Newport News police officer.
Deaths involving law enforcement in other communities have...

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A 25-year-old man was arrested after a woman accused him of exposing himself and touching her at a Newport News hotel Wednesday, an official said.
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"It's unreal," he said. "I...

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ISLE OF WIGHT — A former School Board chairman has been arrested after the Isle of Wight County Sheriff's Office said he stole more than $200,000 from a 79-year-old woman over the last seven years, paying his own bills out of her bank accounts under the...

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